Meet Juan Carlos: The Kid Who Stole Millions of Dollars
Juan Carlos, a child from Colombia, achieved the impossible by sneaking onto a cargo plane to Miami. This young con artist's daring escapade highlights his determination to succeed, despite the challenges he faced.
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So this little kid, he might be one of the best con artists I've ever seen.
Let me show you.
Now his name is Juan Carlos and he lives in Colombia and so far he's had a really hard
life.
But Juan Carlos is about to do whatever it takes to succeed.
So one day he sets out to make that happen and he heads to the local airport to catch
a flight to Miami.
But little Juan Carlos, he can't afford a plane ticket.
So he sneaks onto the tarmac and he climbs onto a cargo plane and he hides out in the wheel well
And he allegedly holds on real tight while the plane takes off and flies
Three and a half hours from Cali, Colombia to Miami, Florida
Then the plane lands and allegedly Juan Carlos falls out of the wheel well
And he just lays there on the tarmac unconscious and airport staff
They eventually find him and he's shivering and he's disoriented and he's just a wreck
But he tells them not that his name is Juan Carlos, but that his name is Guillermo and that
that he's 13 and from Colombia, and that his parents had died, and that he doesn't
have anyone else, so he fled to America.
And his story just blows people away, because they feel sorry for him.
And so the local media, they start covering it.
Then a police officer in the area, this guy, Lozano, he's driving home one day and he
hears the story on the radio, that they found this 13-year-old kid who had been hiding in
the wheel well of a plane.
And Lozano is so moved he goes and he volunteers to be Juan Carlos's temporary guardian
while the state figures out what to do with him.
So Juan Carlos goes and he lives with Lozano and his family.
And this changes his life.
Suddenly he's not living in poverty anymore.
And this middle class lifestyle feels like wealth to him.
And they've got all these nice things and so he tells himself that soon
he's gonna have nice things too.
And within a few weeks of living with Lozano's family, Juan Carlos starts stealing and things around the house go missing.
Plus he's-
